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For Your Need to Buy List!

by
P. Martin-Diaz
| Dec 20, 2015

Please don't forget to buy a book (or many) for those children on your holiday shopping list. Not only are they items which will outlast batteries and boredom, they are key to the development of a reader and a doorway to your past.

As noted in a recent article "Our (Bare) Shelves, Ourselves, Future Tense," by writer Teddy Wayne in The New York Times:

Your own books, well-loved, dog-eared and rumpled, are a part of your personal history. It is a treat for a child to come upon a book that you, now adult, read and love(d). Help provide your own children with the same opportunity to grow up with these things we hold dear, as well as books that we know, believe, or hope, that they will treasure on their own.